How Shaitan Exploits Your Weaknesses - Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]To be a kafir is just to deny Allah and his and his messengers.

[00:00:04]That that makes you a kafir. But it's one denial. You just deny it and then that's But kuffar is those who deny the blessings of Allah because those blessings are happening every moment, every day. Just the fact that you right now, the majority of us in this room, inshallah, all of us, are we have normal temperatures.

[00:00:25]Nobody's had Nobody has a fever. Who Who's keeping that at 98.6 on average?

[00:00:30]Who's keeping it there? And then right now, in your body, you have these these cells. They're white blood cells. They literally travel throughout the body.

[00:00:41]Any foreign invader, these are like the the border patrol. Any foreigner invader, you know, the In Islam, border patrol is one of the highest maqams. And murabitun, those are the people that guard the borders of the Muslims from foreign invasion.

[00:00:57]Th- Those blood cells, anything that comes in that's foreign, they will immediately go to it, surround it, and and they have these phagocytes that eat They'll literally consume it to protect your body. And that's going on 24/7. While you're sleeping, all the time. I mean, what a ni'mah, the immune system that Allah has given us. And he The prophet told us about the these unseen beings because Aisha asked him about ta'un.

[00:01:25]What is he She She said what What is What is the the Because he said halaka uh satahluku ummati bit-ta'ni wat-ta'un.

[00:01:32]My ummah will die because of ta'n and ta'un. Ta'n is uh like in war where you stab somebody or pierce somebody. And then ta'un is um is a uh a plague.

[00:01:47]So, she said alimtu at-ta'n. This is the genius of Aisha. She said alimtu at-ta'n. Like, I know what that means.

[00:01:54]What's ta'un?

[00:01:56]And he said a'da'ukum wa khusun min a'da'ikum al-jinn.

[00:02:01]>> It's a pierce from your unseen enemies.

[00:02:07]A pierce.

[00:02:10]It's a pierce from your unseen enemies.

[00:02:13]So So he was describing plague.

[00:02:18]If you If you look like just you can Google this and see it cuz they have these images of how it does it. But what when when when the virus comes to a cell, it literally pierces it and then injects it. The viral It's It It has to pierce the cell. It literally pierces it.

[00:02:38]And the jinn, there's no doubt that it's one of the meanings because jinn includes angels. If you look in the sun of Arab, angels are part of the unseen world.

[00:02:47]Jinn just means unseen. So these microbes that we can't see are our enemies. So the prophet said the plague is from your unseen enemies, meaning these viruses and bacteria that that ta'un that pierce you.

[00:03:04]And Allahu Alam if that's a biological weapon cuz the fact that he used a a war term and then a a term for plague, you know, Allahu Alam.

[00:03:14]Because all this madness of of our species, these insane people that are messing with Allah's creation. What What I mean is they are changing the creation of Allah. Satan swears an oath, I will compel them until they change the creation of God. And that's what they're doing. They're changing, you know, these viruses that they Lyme's disease and this COVID and things like this. This is all from manipulation.

[00:03:38]And And that And that's why the prophet told us if once the If you If you stop taking care of the ship, the people they'll drill a hole under you, the people that don't follow the Hadud, they'll drill a hole and you'll all drown. That's what the Prophet said.

[00:03:54]This is our own fault. It's our ummah's fault.

[00:03:57]I mean, not us personally, but the ummah lost its mandate.

[00:04:06]You know, we're supposed to stay within the hudud of Allah.

[00:04:15]And then the Muhammadan Muhammad.

[00:04:19]Manna means again hyperbolic. It's they're they're constantly refusing to do good for people. Muhammadan Muhammadan Muhammad.

[00:04:29]They're aggressive people that aggress upon others. Muhammad. One of the meanings of that is they cause doubt.

[00:04:35]They sow doubt.

[00:04:37]They sow doubt.

[00:04:39]They love to sow doubt in people's hearts.

[00:04:43]Muhammadan Muhammadan Muhammadan Muhammadan Muhammad.

[00:04:46]Those who put gods beside Allah.

[00:04:49]The Muhammadan Muhammadan Muhammadan Muhammad. Put them in this intense chastisement. Muhammadan Muhammadan Muhammadan Muhammadan Muhammad. And then this is Shaitan.

[00:05:00]So, there's there's a you know, there's a The Quran tells us that they argue in hell. I mean, and that's also tells you about their personalities.

[00:05:10]You know, they didn't learn how not to argue in dunya cuz the Prophet he didn't argue.

[00:05:16]He never argued. He's he he did have debates. Like he used to go to the midrash, and he would talk to the rabbis, but he wasn't somebody who would ever argue.

[00:05:27]Uh Imam Malik never argued. And Imam Malik said argumentation is not part of our religion.

[00:05:35]And and and and flee from argumentative people.

[00:05:39]Just flee from them.

[00:05:40]If you meet people that that cuz there it's a sickness. People love to argue.

[00:05:47]You know, like, you they have these books on how to win every argument. I don't want to win every argument. Like who wants to win every argument? That that in itself is a disease.

[00:05:58]Because Imam Shafi, this is our tradition. Imam Shafi said, "I never debated anyone except that I prayed that the truth would be on their tongue and not mine so that I could submit to it."

[00:06:11]Because his nerves would have a hub in winning the argument.

[00:06:15]Whereas if it came from the other person, his nerves had no hub, so there was more submission in it.

[00:06:20]Completely different way of viewing reality.

[00:06:24]Completely different way of viewing reality.

[00:06:32]So he says the "Ma adhlaltuhu, I didn't lead him astray." Because see, Allah doesn't and it's almost like he doesn't he doesn't give the person the the the the the honor of having his declaration in this chapter.

[00:06:50]Because there's a missing part, which is he says "Adh-la-ni, that's the one he led me astray." So the person who's going to help points to the shaitan and says, "No, no, he did it. He got me here."

[00:07:02]And then the other So the qarin then says, "No, no, ma adhlaltuhu."

[00:07:05]I didn't do it.

[00:07:07]Ma adhlaltuhu. You see? And this is So Iblis, this is And again, one of the most amazing things it really is one of the truly most amazing things about this book and the more you get into this book, the more you will realize this because the deep structure of this book is is uncanny.

[00:07:25]Because it's from Allah.

[00:07:28]You will see this book never contradicts itself.

[00:07:33]It's it's but because it's a book that Allah create Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created us to to receive his revelation with tadabbur. It wasn't it's not like a book where it's it's just all spelled out to you. You have to think about it.

[00:07:55]Because this is what we were created to do, to think, to ponder, to contemplate.

[00:08:00]The Prophet said said 1 hour of meditation is better than 60 years of worship.

[00:08:07]Contemplation. This is our This is This is our fort. This is our bailiwick. This is what the human being really truly has been given is this ability. All the other creatures out there, they're all in dhikr. They're all doing dhikr.

[00:08:23]They're not doing fikr.

[00:08:25]They're all in dhikr. Everything the birds, the bees, the whales. The whales are amazing. If you've ever heard those whale sounds.

[00:08:36]But But Allah gave us this incredible intellect.

[00:08:40]And so he says, "Rabbana ma adghaytuhu."

[00:08:43]I didn't lead them astray. And this is why Shaytan when he gets everybody, once it's a what you know, it what when the whole amr is done, right? Wa qala al-shaytanu idha qudiya al-amr what what what when the when the amr is done, Shaytan gets there and he said, "Inna Allaha wa'adakum wa'da al-haqq wa wa'adtukum."

[00:09:06]Allah He He promised you and his promise was true. "Wa wa'adtukum fa akhlaftukum."

[00:09:13]And I promised you, but I was lying.

[00:09:17]"Akhlaftukum." So it's only a wa'ad.

[00:09:20]Shaytan has no power over you.

[00:09:23]He can't put a gun to your back, right?

[00:09:27]He can't put a gun to your back.

[00:09:29]All he can do is suggest things.

[00:09:31]That's all That's his power. It's a power of suggestion, which is it's powerful. Suggestion is very powerful.

[00:09:37]But for somebody who has any uh inner sight, any awareness, right? So, when the matter is over, right? Shaitan, he gives his khutbah on apparently on a mimbar of fire.

[00:09:54]And so he says to them, "Indeed Allah promised you a promise of truth, and I promised you and I broke my promise to you.

[00:10:00]I I Right? "And I had no authority over you.

[00:10:04]I didn't have any authority over you.

[00:10:06]I just invited you I just invited you, but you responded to me. You responded to my invitation. It was just an invitation. RSVP.

[00:10:15]It was just an invitation. You didn't have to do your RSVP.

[00:10:18]You could have said, "Sorry, not interested."

[00:10:21]Right? But you came.

[00:10:25]"So do not blame me.

[00:10:27]Blame yourselves."

[00:10:29]His declaration of "Do not blame me" to me is he's basically saying, "The blame game's over.

[00:10:38]You could do that in the dunya.

[00:10:40]Can't do it here.

[00:10:42]Blame game's over.

[00:10:46]Blame yourselves.

[00:10:48]Blame your own souls.

[00:10:51]"I cannot save you."

[00:10:53]I can't save you. Because they go to him. Because they they they were with him in the dunya, so then they go to him when everybody's going to the They go to Shaitan, "Hey, remember you promised us?"

[00:11:04]Shaitan says, "I can't save you. And you cannot save me."

[00:11:08]He says, "I cannot save you."

[00:11:12]"Indeed, I disbelieved in what you associated with me before."

[00:11:15]I'm a kafir of what you associated with me.

[00:11:19]I reject it. I disbelieve in it.

[00:11:21]"Indeed, the oppressors will have a painful chastisement now." So, that's it. "I did not do it."

[00:11:29]They That's what he says. "We didn't We didn't lead them astray. We didn't guide them. We didn't lead them astray. We didn't lead them astray.

[00:11:34]They were were woefully astray.

[00:11:37]Don't argue in my presence. This is Allah.

[00:11:45]Don't argue in my presence. The argument's over.

[00:11:48]So, you had your chance.

[00:11:50]There's no And you know, there's a court to be And this is another thing about the which is so interesting because again, everything in the dunya is to teach us about the It's all It's all there. So, in the dunya in in our Sharia al-Qadi la yaqdi bi ilmihi.

[00:12:12]This is in in our Sharia, the Qadi does not judge by his knowledge. He has to recuse himself. So, if you if you saw the murder, the Qadi doesn't judge but he's not a witness in his own because Allah does not judge by his knowledge.

[00:12:30]Allah doesn't judge by his knowledge.

[00:12:32]Allah doesn't need witnesses, but he's letting us know.

[00:12:37]No, here's the witnesses. You did this on such and such a day. The hands say, "I stole this. He made me do it." The hand doesn't want to go to hell.

[00:12:47]He He makes everything speak on that day.

[00:12:58]I I told you about this. I told you this day was going to happen.

[00:13:06]And and you didn't believe it.

[00:13:08]So, first of all, there's there's no the is la ilaha jahannama min al-jinnati wal-nasi.

[00:13:23]Allah promised He swore an oath that He would fill hell with the insan jinn.

[00:13:29]So so that's not going to be That's not going to be And that's why the Murji'ah who were a group that actually believed that everything was just um it was all takhwif.

[00:13:43]That there wasn't really going to be like a you know any punishment or anything. This was all just to scare people.

[00:13:50]So this this rejects that that there will be people there has to be this is a promise. Wama ana bi dhallamin lil 'abeed.

[00:13:59]The mufassirun said why dhallam here?

[00:14:02]And they said because the the 'abeed is plural. So if if if if there was dhulm for a whole bunch then it would be a dhallam. It would be a hyperbole.

[00:14:12]So so but there's other ones ma dhalamnahum walakin kanu anfusahum yadhlimun. We didn't we didn't uh we didn't um oppress them but they were oppressing themselves.

[00:14:31]Yawma yaqulu li Jahannam hal imtala'ti wa taqulu hal min mazeed?

[00:14:37]Allah says to Jahannam are you full?

[00:14:42]And and hell says hal min mazeed. So they do they take this from two different per sides. One is that Jahannam's like there's more?

[00:14:51]And the other is hal min mazeed?

[00:14:55]There's still room down here.

[00:14:59]And then there's an amazing sahih hadith about the qadam of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And in a riwayah rijluhoo and these are the you know the mutashabihat in the hadith.

[00:15:09]Uh kullu nassin awhamat tashbiha fa awwal aw fafawwid fa awwal aw fawwid wa rum tanziha. You know any any nass that has some kind of tashbih where it's anthropomorphic forward forward or like Allah's Allah's transcendent above anything that really Allah anything that can occur to your mind Allah's other than that. So the words these words we believe in it according to whatever Allah intended by it.

[00:15:46]So those are the and then the some of the later people were they made of it.

[00:15:57]So so So hell man I was once in a hotel in in England and there was a man it was one of those places where you sit and wait and he was actually having a beer across from me.

[00:16:17]And I remembered it was a Heineken beer German beer.

[00:16:21]And he was reading the Quran a translation as I having this beer reading Quran.

[00:16:28]And I said to him uh You know I was dressed in western clothes and I said to him how are you finding that book and he he he just put it he said this book is amazing.

[00:16:39]And then I said wow.

[00:16:41]What what striking about he said it's tension release tension release tension release that's what he said.

[00:16:48]He says I is I hell and all these and then suddenly paradise and all these things so he says just constantly tension release and it's just has a really interesting effect on you. That's what he said to me. I just said to him that's amazing you got that from a first reading.

[00:17:05]>> [laughter] >> But see that all that tension and now the release.

[00:17:11]Right? This is this is >> Mhm.

[00:19:54]>> Mhm.